# Sequoia Capital

> Sequoia Capital is a VC fund backing Artificial Intelligence and Software. See 140 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, United States
- Total investments: 140
- Last investment: Jul 2025
- Lead investor: 31%
- Fund size: $195M
- Last fund: Jan 2023
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/sequoia
- X (Twitter): http://www.twitter.com/sequoia
- Website: http://www.sequoiacap.com
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/SequoiaCap

Sequoia Capital is a VC fund in Menlo Park focused on Artificial Intelligence and Software. Sequoia is a venture capital focused on energy, financial, enterprise, healthcare, internet, and mobile startups. The firm helps a small number of daring founders build legendary companies. It spurs them to push the boundaries of what’s possible.The firm seeks to invest in all sectors with a focus on energy, financials and financial services,healthcare and healthcare services, Internet, mobile, outsourcing, and technology.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2M–$10M |
| Series A | $12M–$300M |
| Series C | $46M–$300M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 39 | 28% |
| Software | 30 | 21% |
| Information Technology | 22 | 16% |
| Health Care | 13 | 9% |
| Cyber Security | 11 | 8% |

182 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 36 | 26% |
| Series A | 31 | 22% |
| Series C | 16 | 11% |
| Pre-Seed | 11 | 8% |
| Series B | 11 | 8% |

14 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 83 | 59% |
| China | 11 | 8% |
| Germany | 5 | 4% |
| United Kingdom | 5 | 4% |
| France | 3 | 2% |

14 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Donald Valentine | Founder | 7 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/donald-valentine |
| Alfred Lin | Partner | 78 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alfred-lin |
| Douglas Leone | Global Managing Partner | 54 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/douglas-leone |
| Jess Lee Tully | Partner | 48 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jess-lee |
| Jim Goetz | Partner | 38 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jim-goetz |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| OpenEvidence | OpenEvidence provides an artificial intelligence medical information platform that organizes and synthesizes peer-reviewed clinical research to help physicians access evidence-based insights for clinical decision support. Its products include an AI-powered medical search engine that quickly retrieves and cites relevant literature from majorjournals and tools like DeepConsult that generate comprehensive research syntheses for complex clinical questions. The platform also integrates features that support clinical documentation and evidence retrieval during patient encounters, aiming to streamline how healthcare professionals find and apply clinical evidence. OpenEvidence delivers responses grounded in sourced medical research and supports workflows that assist clinicians in evaluating and interpreting medical knowledge. | $210M | Series B | Jul 15, 2025 |  |
| Two | Two is a B2B payments and financial technology company that provides buy now, pay later, and net-term payment solutions for businesses. Its platform enables merchants to offer flexible payment terms across online, direct, and in-store sales while automating credit checks, fraud assessment, invoicing, payment collection, and receivables management.Two also provides APIs and tools for integrating B2B payment and credit services into commerce systems. |  |  | Jul 11, 2025 |  |
| Harmonic | Harmonic builds mathematical superintelligence. The company develops Mathematical Superintelligence (MSI), a next-generation artificial intelligence based on mathematical principles that ensures accuracy and eliminate hallucinations. | $100M | Series B | Jul 09, 2025 |  |
| Sundial | Sundial helps builders make meaningful use of data to fulfill their mission. It enables teams to understand the story of their product's data so they can prioritize the most meaningful goals, strategies, and tasks. The company was founded in 2021 and is headquartered in Palo Alto, California. | $23M | Series A | Jul 08, 2025 |  |
| OpenRouter | OpenRouter is a platform that connects AI applications with large language models and cloud hosting providers, allowing users to optimize for costs, speed, and performance. The platform supports over 180 AI models, offers a unified API, and includes functionalities like private chat and exploratory data capabilities. OpenRouter sets the newbenchmark for large-scale AI inference with its global edge infrastructure, privacy-focused design, real-time accounting, and integrated billing. | $40M | Series A | Jun 25, 2025 |  |
| Kalshi | Kalshi is a federally regulated financial exchange that allows investors to trade directly on the anticipated outcome of future events. Kalshi’s markets cover a wide range of topics including economics, international affairs, media and entertainment, climate/weather, and public health. Because Kalshi’s market topics can be more specific thanother instruments like stocks or bonds, investors can get direct exposure to the events and trends that they are interested in. For example, a Kalshi market on whether a certain free trade agreement will be signed can help retail investors get exposure to emerging markets and fluctuations in international trade.Website: https://kalshi.com | $185M | Series C | Jun 25, 2025 |  |
| XBOW | XBOW operates autonomously, carrying out commands and analyzing the results to achieve higher-level objectives. | $75M | Series B | Jun 24, 2025 |  |
| Skyramp | Skyramp is a testing platform for developers. Devs want to create, more than they want to test. We want to make testing as easy as choosing WHERE you want to test, targeting WHAT you want to test, and specifying HOW you want to test. Devs save time they'd otherwise spend struggling with tedious testing frameworks. Skyramp lets you iteratefast, reducing the chance that things break in prod. | $10M | Seed | Jun 24, 2025 |  |
| Delphi | Delphi is digital cloning that scales time, monetizes knowledge, and interacts audience at scale. | $16M | Series A | Jun 24, 2025 |  |
| Harvey | Harvey is an artificial intelligence technology service provider. | $300M | Series E | Jun 23, 2025 |  |

10 of 140 investments shown.

## Co-investors
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## FAQ

### What does Sequoia Capital invest in?

Sequoia Capital invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Software and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 140 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Sequoia Capital's check size?

Sequoia Capital typically joins rounds of $2M–$10M at Seed, $12M–$300M at Series A and $46M–$300M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Sequoia Capital participates in.

### How do I contact Sequoia Capital?

Public channels for Sequoia Capital include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### Who are the partners at Sequoia Capital?

The team at Sequoia Capital includes Donald Valentine (Founder), Alfred Lin (Partner) and Douglas Leone (Global Managing Partner), among 10 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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